... considered to avoid. I shall try and conclude whether the reasons that the USSR and the USA conceived to not go to war apply in the twenty first century, and if nuclear warfare is more likely in a hegemonic system, rather than a bipolar system, especially in light of the new security dilemma post September 11. Nuclear Winter Results of the dangerous consequences of nuclear warfare could precipitate into a nuclear winter. This is the extremity of possible circumstances, however devastation is possible and this could bring about two waves of effects. Evidently from the only use of nuclear weapons in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, there were over 100,000 civilian casualties. Kegley and Wittkopf ascertain that a nuclear war in the future, even if only a tiny fraction of warheads was used, would result in an expected freeze that would occur in the earth's climate from the fallout of nuclear weapons use. ...

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